“…Branding is particularly relevant to the television industry because this industry, more than most others, have faced an enormous amount of marketplace clutter in the last two decades due to technological diffusion, deregulation and globalization (Eastman, 2000). The studies that have given an insight on television brand equity are in the area of television brand extensions (Chang et al, 2004), internet applications of television channels (Ha and Chan-Olmsted, 2001), cable news network brand associations, brand as a factor for small news networks, television news network brand equity as an asset (McDowell, 2004(McDowell, , 2006, CBBE of television channels (Oyedeji, 2007) effect of television networks brand equity on brand extensions (Oyedeji and Hou, 2010) and brand equity as a predictor of credibility of television news network (Oyedeji, 2010). None of these studies study how content-based variables affect brand equity.…”